Coffin



(No Model.) C. H. OLSON.

. GOFFIN. N0 255,112.v Patented Mar. 21,1882.

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PATENT OFFICE.

OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

COFFIN..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,112, dated March 21, 1852. Application filed January 3, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER H. OLSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Decatur, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coffins, of which the following is a specification, and which has never been patented to me, nor to others with my knowl edge and consent, in any foreign country.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 shows a plan of a coffin-lid embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan, and Fig. 4 a transverse section, of the connecting device.

Similar letters ot'reference indicate the same parts in all'the figures.

A is the coffin-lid, B the swinging plate, and O the portion of the connecting device which is connected to the coffin-lid. C is the portion of the connecting device attached to the face-plate by the plate 0. z r

The connecting device is shown in detail in Figs. 3 and 4, in which ais a plate attached to the coffin-lid, and provided with the circular inclined plane 11 and annular elevation a. cis

a plate attached to the swinging plate, and.

plate of a coftin, the part 0, having annular flange a, annular elevation 11, with low portion in front and high portion in therear, and made hollow to receive the shaft 01, to which is pivoted the part 0 carrying the foot 0, and the part 0, attached to the face-plate, as set forth.

O HRISTOPHER H. OLSON.

Attest:

OLIVER Z. GREENE, THOMAS T. RoBER'rs. 

